Tornquist
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Törnquist, Tornquist and Tørnquist are surnames of Swedish
origin. The word tornquist means "thorn branch". It can refer to following:
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
origin. The word tornquist means "thorn branch". It can refer to following:
People
- Ernesto TornquistErnesto TornquistErnesto Carlos Tornquist is considered to be one of the most important entrepreneurs in Argentina at the end of the 19th century. The diversified business empire he created played a key role in helping to link Argentina with the trading and financial systems of the first world...
, Argentine businessman - Evie Tornquist-KarlssonEvie Tornquist-KarlssonEvie Tornquist-Karlsson , professionally known as Evie, is a Contemporary Christian music singer who was known in the late 1970s and early 1980s for songs such as "Step into the Sunshine" and "Four Feet Eleven"....
, American singer - John Törnquist, Swedish missionary to Xinjiang
- Ragnar TørnquistRagnar TørnquistRagnar Tørnquist is a Norwegian game designer and author. He works for Funcom in Oslo.-Biography:Tørnquist studied art, history and English at St Clare's, Oxford from 1987 to 1989. From 1989 to 1990, he studied philosophy and English at the University of Oslo...
, Norwegian game designer - Craig Tornquist, Christian comedian and motivational speaker
- Craig R. Tornquist, Elementary school teacher and Christian
Other
- Tornquist, city in Buenos Aires ProvinceBuenos Aires ProvinceThe Province of Buenos Aires is the largest and most populous province of Argentina. It takes the name from the city of Buenos Aires, which used to be the provincial capital until it was federalized in 1880...
, ArgentinaArgentinaArgentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires... - Tornquist PartidoTornquist PartidoTornquist Partido is a partido located in the south west of Buenos Aires Province in Argentina and is named after Ernesto Tornquist, founder of Tornquist, the partido's main city....
, partidoPartidoA partido is an administrative subdivision of the . They are formally considered to be a single municipality, and usually contain one or more population centers...
in Buenos Aires ProvinceBuenos Aires ProvinceThe Province of Buenos Aires is the largest and most populous province of Argentina. It takes the name from the city of Buenos Aires, which used to be the provincial capital until it was federalized in 1880...
, ArgentinaArgentinaArgentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires... - Tornquist SeaTornquist SeaThe Tornquist Sea between Avalonia and Baltica probably formed at the same time as the Iapetus Ocean. Gondwana, including Avalonia until Early Ordovician, was separate from Baltica throughout the Cambrian...
, paleo-sea between BalticaBalticaBaltica is a name applied by geologists to a late-Proterozoic, early-Palaeozoic continent that now includes the East European craton of northwestern Eurasia. Baltica was created as an entity not earlier than 1.8 billion years ago. Before this time, the three segments/continents that now comprise...
and AvaloniaAvaloniaAvalonia was a microcontinent in the Paleozoic era. Crustal fragments of this former microcontinent underlie south-west Great Britain, and the eastern coast of North America. It is the source of many of the older rocks of Western Europe, Atlantic Canada, and parts of the coastal United States...
during early PaleozoicPaleozoicThe Paleozoic era is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic eon, spanning from roughly...
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